Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn’t a fan of lamps.” #CBRBINGO – Holiday

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

by 2 Comments

I’ve been holding off on reviewing this one for a couple of days because I wasn’t sure if I was going to round my 4.5 stars up to five or not. Turns out I’m not—for now. This series and its premise make me nervous. I know that most YA goes in for happy endings, but there’s always the occasional tragical one, and I’m nervous this is one of those. So, I’m sort of holding out to see how the last two books go. If it […]

The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)

The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) by Nnedi Okorafor

by 2 Comments

This was a great ending to the series. I honestly took a while to get back to it because I wanted to take my time. Okorafor does a great job of ending the series in a satisfying way. I will echo what some other readers said though which is that it felt like the story had several endings. I think it may have been better if it had ended differently too. Just because I think it would have made it a more “real” ending in […]

Gateway to the Russian Novel

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

by Leave a Comment

Cbr14bingo New This is a new translation by Nicolas Paternak Slater and Maya Slater, and it is a novel about the clash of old and new ideas If you have been meaning to read one of the great Russian novels but are put off by the length of those written by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I’d like to suggest that you take a look at the works of Ivan Turgenev. A contemporary of those two illustrious writers and brilliant in his own right, Turgenev covers similar […]

CBR14 Bingo – Week 7 Check-in

by 2 Comments

Welcome to the Week 7 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Some books won! While censorship is far from defeated (check on your local school boards folks), a Virginia judge dismissed the obscenity case against Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer and Sarah J Maas’ A Court of Mist and Fury. Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 5 reviews anana – 3 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 8 reviews ardaigle – 8 […]

Give This The Miniseries Treatment!

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

by 1 Comment

I was pretty excited to finally pick up and find the time to read A Master of Djinn. I had previously been delighted by P. Djèlí Clark’s alternative, magical steampunk 1910s Cairo. The setting is just so damned fun. The novellas I had read before Master of Djinn—The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo— were masterful in how they managed to be so descriptive for short form works, so was I curious as to how he would adapt an entire novel into this […]

‘Those who see the dead soon join them.’

Daughter of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

by Leave a Comment

CBR 14 Bingo: Time Raine races against time to save Ovitus and to provide proof at the trial. Raine and the cult she has been traveling with for years are besieged in an ancient monastery when she rescues a mysterious wounded girl. But this act of kindness only serves to pull her into a dark conspiracy. I picked up this book because I am always on the lookout for fantasy authors I’ve not read before, and because I’ve always enjoyed stories with death magic. But […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo